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Summer Sea Ice could end this decade, and the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2020, too. https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-gl
by trentnix 7y ago
Summer Sea Ice could end this decade, and the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2020, too.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-national-parks-gone-by-2020-signs/ https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-na...
- casefields 7y agoJesus, that's so embarrassing.
- chrisco255 7y ago"Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years" (2004) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.t... "By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war." Ironically, we have more energy than ever before in 2020. "“The End of Snow?” | by The New York Times" (2014) https://snowbrains.com/end-snow-new-york-times/ https://snowbrains.com/end-snow-new-york-times/ Meanwhile, 2020 near record year for snow mass totals in Northern Hemisphere: https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/fmi_swe_tracker.jpg https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/fmi_swe...
- elfexec 7y agoI wish we had a centralized archive for all of these predictions gone wrong.
- trentnix 7y agoI'm sure this isn't all of them, but it's a good start. https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...